States address a range of health care policy issues.
(Daily Report) Jul 02, 2010
For most Massachusetts insurers, a standoff with regulators over premium rate increases was left unresolved Thursday evening.
(Daily Report) Jul 02, 2010
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Friday's opinions and editorials from around the country.
(Daily Report) Jul 02, 2010
News outlets report on the hospital market.
(Daily Report) Jul 02, 2010
The Obama administration's biggest domestic policy accomplishment -- the new health care law -- is under steady legal attack. On Thursday, lawyers argued the first case to hit the courts, filed by the attorney general of Virginia. More than a dozen other state challenges are in the pipeline.
(Story) Jul 02, 2010
Democrats had hoped to extend health insurance subsidies for newly laid off workers, extend extra Medicaid payments to the states, and pass a long term Medicare 'doc fix' before the July 4 recess. But all they could accomoplish was a short-term Medicare fix.
(Daily Report) Jul 02, 2010
This week's research roundup includes studies and briefs from PLoS Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Commonwealth Fund and the Urban Institute.
(Daily Report) Jul 02, 2010
Democrats had hoped to extend health insurance subsidies for newly laid off workers, extend extra Medicaid payments to the states, and pass a long term Medicare 'doc fix' before the July 4 recess. But all they could accomplish was a short-term Medicare fix.
(Story) Jul 02, 2010
A district court judge says he will decide within 30 days whether to dismiss this state challenge to the new federal health reform law.
(Daily Report) Jul 01, 2010
People who have been unable to obtain health insurance in the commercial market because of pre-existing conditions can apply for a new, federally funded high-risk insurance pool beginning Thursday.
(Daily Report) Jul 01, 2010